Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education

Classroom Mothers in Neoliberal Times and the Patriarchal Mother-Power in School

Meral Apak (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

199 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-19-0262-8 (ISBN)

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This book unveils women’s empowerment as mothers as a notion in the school system that reinforces patriarchy rather than weakening it. It discusses how empowerment is a contested notion, even though it is mostly praised in terms of women’s emancipation. This book explores the concept that although women are breastfeeding education as mothers in the neoliberal education system, they are not necessarily doing so as a self-sacrifice as one may generalize in the context of neoliberal economy. Instead, this book argues that women are doing this as a means of investment for gaining a sense of individual power, which ironically, reinforces patriarchal values. It presents demonstrative and descriptive practical incidences in the field.

Dr Meral Apak is a critical education researcher chasing the odds in the “normal” within the realm of educational life and thought. Her work focuses on gender issues in education in the field of power, empowerment and “dis”powerment in a sociological sense. Apak has taught at various levels in public and private schools. During and after her Master’s degree in Women’s Studies, she actively participated in the establishment of women’s solidarity organisations and critical education associations. During her doctoral study in the field of Educational Sciences, she contributed to the establishment of BEPAM (Bogazici University, Center for Educational Policy Studies) and led the center from 2013 to 2017. Apak has taught at various universities in Istanbul and in Germany, and continues her research in Berlin.

1. Introduction.- 2. Historical, political and social background: The neoliberal times and education.- 3. Unpaid care labour, voluntary work and motherhood.- 4. Forms of capital and parental involvement.- 5. Classroom mothers: A reserve army of labour behind the school system.- 6. School as a territory of power and classroom motherhood as a power position.- 7. Classroom motherhood as a power position.- 8. Classroom mothers and the neoliberal education : A match or a mismatch?.- 9. Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Studies of Education
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 199 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Classroom mothers • Critical Reproduction Theories • empowerment of women • Feminist Parental Participation • Mothering at School • Mother labour • Mothers in school • Neoliberal Education • Parental inclusion • Patriarchal motherhood • Women and neoliberalism • Women and patriarchal practices • Women as parents in schools • Women’s Unpaid Care Labour • Women’s unpaid labour
ISBN-10	981-19-0262-3 / 9811902623
ISBN-13	978-981-19-0262-8 / 9789811902628
Zustand	Neuware